Crow Stone
The Crow Stone ( German Krähenstein - also Hole Stone (Crouse); Broom Hill; or Bridal Stone called) stands east of the B 7052; 400 m north of the hamlet of Crouse, in Kirkcowan west of Wigtown in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland .
The menhir ( English standing stone ) is about 1.5 meters high and has a double-conical hole 0.35 m from above, which makes it a perforated stone .
A book of names from 1848 shows that there was a second stone about 15 meters to the east. Both stones were "traditionally associated with wedding ceremonies". An entry from 1975 reports that the removal and destruction of the second stone by W. Armstrong, an antique collector, was believed to have occurred around 1857.
The stone was placed under protection in 1938.
In the adjacent field, only a few meters away, is the White Cairn (Crouse).
literature
- Homer Sykes: Mysterious Britain . Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London 1993, ISBN 0-297-83196-8 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 52 ′ 10.5 " N , 4 ° 32 ′ 53" W.